Estudio Lamela | Wroclaw Stadium

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The main idea of the competition entry is that the stadium, due to it’s size not only constitutes a part of the landscape, but it actually is a landscape as such. Therefore the design has been started from the scale of the landscape. The origins of the design may be found in the stripe pattern of farm lands around Wroc³aw.
The area of the investment has been divided into functionally differing stripes in such way that the stadium constitutes their culmination.
Other functions which, according to the investor, were to complete the area’s offer, were located in it’s close surrounding.
These are: retail centre, hotel, sports centre, multistory parking for 3600 cars and 180 coaches, accordant with FIFA / UEFA norms.
The covering of the stadium is designed as 3-dimensional structure of bars, spanned 350meters and 50 meters high. It is complemented by glazed cover hanged on steel ropes, which covers the shorter tribunes. The covering has been designed in order to smoothly integrate it with surrounding land.
The tribunes for spectators have been divided into lower ring – recessed in the land and upper ring – supported by concrete skeleton connected to the structural scheme of the parking.
All the tribunes offer about 44.000 seats including 537 VIP ones and 826 seats for the media and press. The necessary service functions, as cloak-rooms, VIP lounges, areas for press and TV have been located on respective levels under the western tribune.
The stadium complies with FIFA / UEFA norms for semi-final games.
Planned budget for the investment – approx. 500 million PLN (138 million Euro)

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University of Northampton Masterplan | Alison Brooks Architects

Alison Brooks Architects, one of the leading talents in the UK, was awarded first prize for their master plan for the University of Northampton. The two stage master plan will play a vital role in enabling the university to meet both the need for short term accommodations and longer term plans for future growth. “The School of the Arts embraces new technologies in a dynamic cross-discipline mix that will drive our vision for a creative technologies campus. I believe the chosen proposal will provide a powerful statement which captures and projects our collective values and ambitions,” explained Paul Middleton.
As the design was just selected, the next phase of work includes furthering the development of the concepts as well as consulting with the students, local residents, and faculty that will be using the building, to ensure that the plans will take into account the views from a broad spectrum of groups. The design for the University of Northampton will also work toward becoming sustainable.
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New 4th Army Jiangnan Headquarter Exhibition Hall | Atelier Zhanglei

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Situated in Liyang, the city 70km southeast of Nanjing, New 4th Army Jiangnan Headquarter Exhibition Hall was built to memory the history of New 4th Army leaded by Communist Party during last 30's. Fragmental granite is used here as façade cladding for the pure cubic volume which expresses very strong the monumental function of this project. The courtyard turns from internal volume to external façade, exposes itself in dramatic red section, presenting its revolutional feature of this project strongly supported by local government.

Structural & Material: Concrete, Brick, Stone
Floor Area: 4200 Square Meters
Design Period: 2006.03-2006.06

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Ao-Di Next Gene 20 Villa | Graft Architects

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Project: Ao-Di Next Gene 20 Villa
Type: Single family house
Client: Ao-Di Grand Land Architecture International Project
Location: Ao-Di, Taiwan

Design Architect: Graft Architects
Principals: Gregor Hoheisel, Lars Krückeberg, Alejandra Lillo, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit
Project Manager: Ing-Tse Chen
Project Team: Francesco Cairoli, Ning Duo, Mei Li, Qingxia Qin, Jing Ruan, Eric Spencer, Dayong Sun, Fei Tang, Tina Troester, Lin Wang

Local Architect in Taiwan: Guu Architects:
Principal: Chueh-Chih Guu
Partner: Shih-Kang Chu

Structural Engineer: Hsin-Cheng Engineering Consultants Ltd
General Manager: Kian-Chou Huang

Mechanical Engineer: Han-Chueh Mechanical Engineers: Chi-Jong Chang

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84 Auto Museum Teufen ,Switzerland | Isa Stürm Urs Wolf SA

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The Appenzell region and the Rennwelt are the topics of the architecture of the
Auto Museum: The Rennwelt formally and programmatically, the landscape context.
The symbiotic interplay opened multiple perceptions and use a high flexibility. The car museum is like a station at the racetrack Bypass road. As a small part of a large landscape, it takes the scale of the surrounding settlements on. The soil itself is its surface. It jut three wings with large windows in the meadow, forming the interface between Rennwelt and landscape. Organic shapes, light, motion control surfaces and space dynamics.
The exhibition is the situation created. She has several stations that are emerging outdoor and inside the exhibition areas are connected to the loop. Designed as a generous and flexible exhibition space for cars, is the main hall with its lateral extensions varied uses. The west wing has to bypass showcase effect.
Visitors park their cars on the Aussichtsdeck, coaches turn on the forecourt and wait in the Directions field. From the railing of the parking decks on the wings we have the vision over the Appenzell region.
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Herzog & de Meuron | Schaulager | Basel Switzerland

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The architects Herzog & de Meuron designed an unusual space for Schaulager. Their task was to design a warehouse for the open storage of contemporary art that had optimal climatic conditions and was available by appointment. The building was also intended to be a site for conservation, research and dissemination. Rather than an anonymous warehouse, the spacious building was to be conceived so as to produce a specific and unique place.

At 7,250 square metres, art storage on the three upper stories occupies the bulk of the total area of 16,500 square metres. There are 3,650 square metres on the ground floor and in the basement available for exhibitions. The permanent installations by Robert Gober and Katharina Fritsch occupy 260 and 390 square metres, respectively. The administration occupies 800 square metres. The art handling department and the workshops occupy another 800 square metres. The 144-seat auditorium and the seminar room occupy 250 square metres. The remaining 3,100 square metres are for technical and other facilities.

Schaulager is the home for the works in the collection of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation that are not currently on exhibition. It is a new kind of space for art. It is neither museum nor a traditional warehouse. Schaulager is first and foremost a response to the old and new needs for the storage of works of the visual arts. It dispenses with box storage and transforms the foyers of the exhibition halls into autonomous facilities, independent of any museum, with specific qualities and functions. It is a pilot programme that allows works of art to lead their own lives behind the curtains, a life that does not simply consist of an endless wait for public presentation.

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International Convention Center of the City of Madrid | Manuel Ocana

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Building Type: Convention Center
LOCATION: Paseo de la Castellana. Madrid
PROJECT: 2007
PROMOTER: Ayto de Madrid
ARCHITECTS: Manuel Ocaña, and Alfredo Payá Subarchitecture (Bañón Carlos Andrés Silanes, Fernando Valderrama)
CONSULTANTS: José Carrasco Hortal, structures
PARTNERS: Miguel María del Rey Colon, Laura Culiañez, Roberto Gonzalez, Javier Iniesta and Lucía Jiménez Martínez.
Built surface: 69,069 m2

A difficult site. A vast facility behind four colossal towers that rise along the first line of Madrid’s most important thoroughfare. A matter of content and figure of urban scale.

The convention center must have a presence able to interact with those four towers measuring 250 meters in height, ensuring that the whole complex show synergy. The links of dependence of the new convention center with the environment must be hyperstatic, links of kind and polite mutual dependence. The building proposed for the CICCM and the setting in which it is located shall be different expressions of a same common essence. Making reference to Einstein’s Universal Gravitation Law, the new CICCM will be a building that ‘takes hold of’ the space to tell it how it must distort itself; and that space shall in turn take hold of the building to tell it how it must move. The object accepts and thus works with an extreme geometry but is not ‘tied’ to it. It is a manifesto of communication between architecture and its context and between the context and architecture. The convention center and a group of towers that appropriate and pervade one another.

The right measure of courtesy leads to concealing most of the program in a camouflaged building, drawing attention to a silvery, bright star that explodes and blends into the surrounding landscape; a star that from point to point measures as much as the towers and whose cantilevered arms (some of over 100 meters) and compensated by a spiral, have a structure whose horizontal display is as powerful as that of the towers’ vertical one. The star – that will be taken up by the congress area – rests on the building-crater, a sort of partially buried elliptical hangar clad in red volcanic rock that lights up with radial glass clefts and that accommodates the areas for exhibitions and catering. Pedestrian access to the convention center is through the star and this metallic mountain, whereas vehicles access the precinct from above and inside.

Text and images from: Manuel Ocana

AMC Pacific Place Cinema By James Law Cybertecture

James Law Cybertecture International and Broadway Theatre Co Ltd. unveiled the first Cybertecture-cinema, AMC Cinema Pacific Place, on 9 December. James Law Cybertecture International is the architect and conceptual designer behind the newly renovated, state-of-the-art cinema complex situated at the L1 Floor of Pacific Place.


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Dragos Towers Apartments | Istanbul | Turkey | Superpool

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Dragos Towers are planned on the Asian side of Istanbul, apartments with views onto the Marmara Sea and the Princess Islands.

The two towers proposed are designed to allow all apartments unit above 5th floor to have maximum views through shaded glass facades. Leaving the big blind surfaces to the back with opportunities for vegetation and alternative energy fields.

The apartment towers are connected at the bottom with a valley of garden units.
Dragos Hill has been a prestigious neighborhood of summer villas that is now enclosed by approaching urban development. As a solution to the inevitable expansion of the city, Dragos Towers offers a fresh take on urban housing (apartments) and its relation to outdoors.

Team: Selva Gürdoğan, Gregers Tang Thomsen, Jonathan Alexander, Stephanie Gallia, Nesil Kalenderoglu, Marta Marszal

Type: Commission

Size: 53,000 m2

Client: Darbaz Yapi - Kafi Şehircilik

Collaborators: YDKStudio, APCB, AKIM, Foxall Associates

Location: Turkey, Istanbul

Status: Ongoing

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Medina Turgul Office | Erginoglu & Calislar Architects

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The Istanbul, Turkey based Erginoglu & Calislar Architects designed a contemporary restoration and conversion of a historical stone walled salt barn, so it could be used as the offices of the advertising agency Medina Turgul DDB.
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Budapest City Hall, Architect, Hungary | Erick van Egeraat

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Erick van Egeraat has won the international competition to design the City Hall in the centre of Budapest. From a field of 18 participants, an international professional jury selected his proposal, which combines restoration of the existing 18th century baroque building and new, futuristic wings to create a contemporary Main Square. This proposal makes an end to a period of almost three centuries of uncertainties at this unique plot in the Heart of Budapest.
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LA Loft, Los Angeles| Tighe Architecture

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The 1400 square foot apartment is located in existing warehouse building in downtown Los Angeles. The live-work environment was designed for a creative professional. Two distinct entities are evident in the design. The angular geometry of the faceted stone clad monolith stands in contrast of the free flowing organic elliptical shaped room.
The building material used for the apartment were chosen their ability to absorb or reflect the ever changing colour palette of the light.
The apartment spa area is provided with a stylised garden and a floating steel fireplace.

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Invited competition for an open art storage and museum in Cologne Brauweiler | Urban Environments Architects & Stufe4

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The Schaumagazin Brauweiler by Mark Mückenheim and Frank Zeising is an art storage building that is open to the public.
Besides the open depots it also incorporates a large museum type exhibition space. The program was the guiding force for the concept of this fairly new building type: “Mies van der Rohe vs. Sir John Soane” - a Miesian hall, a “universal space”, that is surrounded by open cabinet spaces that refer to the famous exhibition layout in the Sir John Soane Museum in London.

This organization, much like a reading room surrounded by book stacks in a classic library layout, renders itself perfect fort he purposes of this museum.
Eighty percent of the building mass is organized underground therefore, the volumetric impact of the museum in the protected cloister garden in Brauweiler near Cologne, Germany is minimized.
The skin of the building is a high tech shell consisting of solar panels and tinted windows providing natural lighting inside the museum. This roof also generates enough energy to render the building as self-sufficient and CO2 neutral. The consequential black skin of the facetted geometry reflects its surrounding in ever changing ways, this refers poetically to the constant changes of the exhibitions inside the very flexible structure of the museum.

urban environments architects & Stufe4
Principals: Mark Mückenheim, Frank Zeising
Landscape: ClubL94 - Burkhard Wegener
Structure: Fuehrer, Kosch, Juerges Engineers - Prof. Winfried F. Führer, Dipl.-Ing. Ulrich Kosch
HVAC: Ingenieurgemeinschaft TEN Trümper-Erpenbach-Nordhausen GmbH - Dipl.-Ing. Werner Hegemann
Building Physics: knp.bauphysik - Christoph Hämmerling
Artistical consultant: Mareike Foecking
Team: Rafael Drzymalla, Denise Stella
Model: Anikó Krén

Bank Interior Design | Arquia Bank | Bilbao,Spain | NoMad

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Project: Arquia Caja de Arquitectos ( Bank Interior )
Architect: NoMad
Glass manufacturer: Schott
Location: Bilbao

The bank interior is made up of more than 300 of the tubes, some of which are up to 3,150mm in length, form the membrane-like office walls. The tubes are made of Schott Duran, a borosilicate glass that is particularly resilient and transparent, making them suitable for pharmaceutical and industrial uses.

Manufactured specially for the Arquia Bank scheme, the tubes have an outside diameter of 150mm and a wall thickness of 9mm. They cost around €15 (£12.57) per kg, compared with a standard tube of 10mm diameter and a wall of 1mm which would cost around €5 (£4.30).

The bank interior also needed something impressively distinctive since Arquia has a tradition of showcasing original design in each of its 24 branches across Spain. With the design stakes particularly high in Bilbao, Nomad looked outside the usual stock of materials to find a completely new way of creating internal walls.

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Photographs:Miguel De Guzman

September 11 Memorial Museum By Davis Brody Bond Aedas

National September 11 Memorial Museum
New York, NY
2011
This newly formed and evolving museum is dedicated to recounting and interpreting the tragic 1993 and September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
The 125,000 square foot museum occupies the authentic site of the attacks, which is both historical and hallowed ground.
The Museum’s architecture incorporates in-situ artifacts of the original buildings including box beam column bases of both towers, along with the Slurry Wall that survived the attacks.
Most poignantly, the Museum will be the repository for the unidentified human remains from the tragedy.
Positioned directly below the Memorial plaza, the Museum is bounded by the Freedom Tower to the north, PATH train tracks and new HUB Transit Station to the east, Port Authority chiller plant to the south, and a portion of the site’s perimeter "bath tub" slurry wall construction to the west.
The volumes of the north and south fountain pools, located directly above the footprints of the original towers, penetrate the Museum space from above.
The Museum’s architectural design reinforces the tower volumes as primary physical and referential elements.
They serve to organize the museum spaces and their presence is subtly articulated through skillful lighting of the recycled aluminum that wraps the tower forms. Between the north and south tower volumes, visitors will descend seventy feet from the plaza to the lowest "bedrock" level along a carefully crafted internal landscape called the "ribbon."
Along this journey, a variety of interpretive exhibits will explore different aspects of the attacks and their impact on both those who perished and those who survived. The architectural design has developed simultaneously with the creation of the Museum.
The Design Team has worked in close association with Museum staff, their consultants and exhibition designers to ensure an integrated design.
The project has posed a series of technical challenges that the designers have incorporated into the project including: Security and blast criteria Preservation and public access to historic resources Reinforcement of existing slurry wall LEED® Gold certification Museum space located below fountains and pools of water
Adjacent sites under design and construction The Museum’s interpretation of the attacks on the World Trade Center Towers will serve to complement the commemoration of the thousands of people who perished and are honored at the National September 11 Memorial.
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Club| Maritime Youth House | Østamager, Sundby Harbour,Copenhagen | PLOT Architects

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Two clients had to share the facilities: a sail club and a youth house. Their
desires were opposite: the youth house wanted outdoor space for the kids to
play, the sail club needed most of the site to park their boats... the
building is the literal results of our negotiations with these 2
contradictory demands: when the deck bubbles up it allows for boat storage
underneath, still letting the kids run/play above...

PROJECT : MARITIME YOUTH HOUSE
LOCATION : SUNDBY HARBOUR, COPENHAGEN, DK (AMAGER STANDVEJ 13)
SIZE : 2000 M2
BUDGET : 1 170 000 €
TYPE : INVITED COMPETITION, 1ST PRIZE
STATUS : COMPLETION JUNE 2004
CLIENT : KVARTERLØFT GOVERNMENTAL CITY RENEWAL PROJECT, LOKALE OG
ANLÆGSFONDEN, THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOND
COLLABORATORS: PLOT, JDS + BIG
PROJECT TEAM:
JULIEN DE SMEDT,
BJARKE INGELS, ANNETTE JENSEN, FINN NØRKJÆR, HENNING STÜBEN, JØRN JENSEN, MADS H LUND, MARC JAY, NINA TER-BORCH
CONSULTANTS: BIRCH & KROGBOE A/S: JESPER GUDMAN, STRUKTUR

The interior of the building is very basic, with one major characteristic: the front house, which is used as common room and where most of the daily activities take place, is more luxurious than the workshop and storage building on the back corner, but still in a very puritan way. The difference is that the floor in the workshop is a standard grey concrete while in the community space it’s a white concrete with white stones.
The presence of hard surfaces everywhere on the inside is meant as a contrast to the wooden exterior, almost like an inversion of what is commonly done (wood indoor, asphalt outdoor). This is reflecting the dominance of outdoor activities of the youth house. The actual ‘room’ of the Maritime Youth house IS the wooden deck… it englobes all the programs, indoor and outdoor.

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Photos from: e-architect and archdaily
Drawings from:archdaily

Eco Design| EcoVillage and Restructuring Fort De Buc,France | Louis Paillard

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EcoVillage and Restructuring Fort De Buc,France

Eco Village Data:

Date: 2009
Type: Competition
Program: 14.5 ha / restructuring of the upper Fort Buc: Ecovillage, 190 + parking + ecohouses + 15 + center ecovillas + pool
Pontractor: Louis Paillard
Client: City of Buc
Surface: 23500 m²
Cost: 90.56M € TTC

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Original text from Louis Paillard translated by Design Ideas

Bus Terminal | Arnhem Central-The Netherlands-UN Studio

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Client: Municipality of Arnhem
Location: station area, Arnhem
Building area: transfer hall 6.000 m2/ underground parking 44.000 m2/ bus terminal 7.500 m2/ two office towers 22.000m2
Program: masterplan, transfer hall, underground parking, bus terminal, two office towers
Status/phase: construction phase/ realization 2006
Source: UN Studio/Arup

Sociopolis Sharing Tower Apartments-Guallart Architects

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Sociaopolis Apartments

The ED 01 building has a surface area of 21,000 m2 and a hybrid programme that includes 250 rental apartments, an arts centre and a technology centre.

The ground floor of the aparments is articulated around a public plaza to the north of the great central park that will serve to put on events in an urban setting that is at once open and delimited time and distributes access to the various public, shared and private spaces of the complex.

The apartments tower acts as an axis of reference from which a series of linear volumes project out at different heights and delimit with their particular densities the public space of the plaza.

In keeping with the principles of the shared space proposed in the first Tower, this project generates a variety of types of shared housing, on the basis of the ages and optimum living conditions of the occupants.
The lower levels have a series of apartments for artists with spaces for them to work in. The elevated linear volume on the plaza has housing for young people such as university students, which large shared spaces for each group of 30 apartments.
On the various different floors of the tower there are eight-person micro-communities that share spaces such as a meeting room, work zones, laundry, a terrace and in some cases zones for cooking and eating in.
This project complies with the national building standard that allows a maximum of 20% of the usable surface area to be allocated to shared spaces.
In line with this, a typical apartments on one of these floors would have 35 m2 of private space and 70 m2 of shared space. On upper the floors the shared space is on the apartments scale, with two-bedroom units suitable for a couple or a young family with one child.
Guallart Architects

Mora River Aquarium -Promontorio Architecture-Mora, Alentejo, Portugal

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The River Aquarium is located in Mora, a small municipality in the Northern Alentejo region. Given the need to shift regional development from the dependence of an increasingly weaker agriculture economy into the environmental tourism and leisure market, the municipality launched a design-and-build competition for an aquarium that could somehow embody the paradigms of biodiversity of the Iberian river.

Integrated in the Ecological Wild Park of Gameiro and bordering the Raia stream, the aquarium stands amidst a secluded field of cork and olive trees removed from the more intense leisure and fishing activities of the river. The plot’s gently undulating topography forms a basin at the confluence of two small watercourses. Placing the aquarium at the edge of this quasi-natural retaining lake brought together the fundamental relation between its thematic contents and the presence of fresh water.


Architects: Promontorio Architecture
Location: Mora, Alentejo, Portugal
Project Team: João Perloiro, João Luís Ferreira, Paulo Perloiro, Paulo Martins Barata, Pedro Appleton
Collaborators: J. Cancela, A. Braga, R. Correia, S. Reis, R. Henriques
Client: Municipalidad de Mora
Contractor: Teixeira Duarte, SA
Site Area: 17 Ha
Constructed Area: 3.000 sqm
Construction year: 2004-2006
Budget: US $3,000/sqm
Photographs: João Morgado
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Nunawading Toyota Showroom,Australia By Gray Puksand

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Toyota Showroom design.
The challenge was to design a unique building form that would stand out from a sea of commercial buildings at highway speed. The result is a unique structure design with all building elements detailed to relate to the whole as a finite balance.
Like the equilibrium of a snowdrift.

Whitehorse Rd, Nunawading
Circa: 2004
Area: 3,367sqm
Project Cost: $7.0m..

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Tetris Apartments | Ljubljana, Slovenia | OFIS arhitekti

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The location is on the edge of the planned 650 apartments which was finished year ago.
Also this apartment block is social type and was sold to Slovenian Housing fund.

The cost per square meter had to be 650 EUR/m2 since the selling cost was 1200EUR/m2. The given urban plot of the apartments was 4 floors high, 58 meters long and 15 in width.
Since the orientation of the building is towards the busy highway the apartment opening together with balconies are shifted as 30 degrees window-wings towards the quieter and south orientated side.
Long after the elevations were planned many people associated them to Tetris game. And so the building got its name.

Sustainability issues:

1.The combination of balconies and winter gardens function as constant temperature buffer zone to the main living and sleeping areas.
The balconies are shifted opposite from the busy road. On the same time provide shelter from direct sunlight direction to the apartments.
Additional aluminum shading panels are placed on the outer sides of the winter loggias and balconies.

2. The service and communication spaces are reduced to minimum thus the daylight is provided on the shafts. The monthly basic energetic and service costs are very low; so also economic for the habitants since the apartments are social type.

Architect: OFIS arhitekti

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design Year: 2005-2006
Construction Year: 2006-2007
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Vide?nik
Design Team: Martina Lipicer - udia, Nejc Batistic - udia, Andrej Gregoric - cand.arh, Ana Kosi - stud.arch.
Programme: Social apartments with parking
Client: Gradis G group, Ljubljana
Constructed Area: 5,000 sqm
Nº of floors: 4 floors + 2 underground parking
Budget: Construction: 650 EURO/sqm (US $1,020)
Ceilling: 1,200 EURO/sqm (US $1,880)
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

Herzog and de Meuron | TEA -Tenerife Arts Center| Santa Cruz de Tenerife ,Canary Islands, Spain

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Site Area: 8,800 square meters
Building Footprint: 7,753 square meters
Gross Floor Area: 20,600 square meters

Completed: 2008

Client: Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Architects: Herzog & de Meuron

“The building typology of our design for the Tenerife Arts Center is based on courtyards. The elongated courtyards are important in many ways, providing daylight, views and orientation for the visitors and users of the museum spaces and the library.
One of them, between the office and museum wings of the arts center is planted with typical plants of the Island.
From the very beginning of the design process we operated with courtyards, also because we wanted to connect the new arts center typologically with its existing neighbour building, the Antiguo Hospital Civil which has recently been transformed into the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre. However it took a while before we understood that all different activities and functions of the arts center should be assembled under one continuous roof structure rather than break down into individual wings.
This is also one of the reasons why the elongated courtyards do not appear like embraced exterior spaces but rather like interior spaces that are being left open. The spatial interplay between inside and outside of the art center integrates rather than separates the very diverse urban landscapes which are so fascinating in Santa Cruz.”
Herzog & de Meuron (1999-2008)

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New York Aquarium at Coney Island | Smith+Miller+Hawkins Arch-

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New York Aquarium Perimeter Vision Design.
Our proposal for the New York City Aquarium derives from a nuanced understanding of the impact of nature,technology and mass culture on the small stretch of sand that is Coney Island.
The project has two parts.
The Wave fence is multivalent surface surrounding the aquarium.The sandscape is an artificial dune concealing a parking garage below.
Like the aquarium itself both are technological versions of nature, luring visitors into the world of ocean, both aquarium and antlantic.


Location:Brooklyn, NY
Client:Wildlife Conservation Society, New York Aquarium, and New York City Economic Development Corporation

Collaborators:with Scape Landscape Architecture and Tillet Lighting Design

Architect:smith +miller+hawkins arch

The Design Of Exhibition and Congress Center of Ávila | Ávila, Spain | Francisco Mangado

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During the project design the guiding principles were conceptual density, generosity in the way of occupying space, and exploitation of the topographical features of the site. The landscape studded with granite pieces, both formally and spatially, provided the references needed.

The design Municipal Congress and Exhibition Center is aimed at becoming a meeting place to celebrate different kinds of events, a levelled area or plaza at the edge of the walls. The main level of this area is designed to match up with the highest point of the plot, so that its extension generates a large interior void that shall house, without excavation, the required uses.

The building is designed to take up the northern side of the new public space, delimiting along with the walls the new square. In keeping with the contours of the site, the project combines two different geometries: the most orthogonal and elongated space contains the auditorium and main halls, while the most precipitous and uneven one contains the exhibition spaces.

Location: Ávila, Spain.

Total Area: 22.000m2

Competition: 1st Prize

Text and images from:Francisco Mangado

Abu Dhabi Mirage Hotel | UAE | 2009 | KA3 design group

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Location : Al Bateen, Abu Dhabi, UAE
GFA : 105.600§³
Scale : B3 ~ 5F
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BALI BARRET SHOP 01 | SHIBUYA TOKYO JAPAN | Franklin Azzi

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BALI BARRET SHOP 01 | SHIBUYA TOKYO JAPAN
Client: Bali barret / Sazaby inc.
architect: Franklin Azzi
construction company: Sazaby inc.
Area: 140m ²
cost of the operation: 300 000 euros
Delivery Date: September 2004
Time Frame: 3 months
activity: store ready-to-wear brand bali barret
location: 1-4-8 Jinnan Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan

The project of "red bunker" in Tokyo gives a radical type of architecture out of its context. The bunkers were built mostly on the wall of the Atlantic during the Second World War. In most cases the bunker has a name, often a female name, Barbara, Karola ... this one is called the bali barret.
Original text by Franklin Azzi translated by Design Ideas.
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The LM Project-The Mermaid Tower And The Rock | Foreign Office Architects

"The vision of the competition proposal for the two office building projects, the Mermaid and the Rock, on Langelinie and Marmormolen quays is to provide Copenhagen with a new and modern landmark."FOA

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2008

Udviklingsselskabet By & Havn ATP Ejendomme A/S

Engineering

Architecture without Engineers (Sergio Fox) AKT (Andrew Murray)

Architect

Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller FOA (foreign office architects)

Artist

Ruth Campau

Address

København, Danmark

Size

60000 m2

Year

Not won

Competition year

2008

Serero Architects | Paris Ecotower

ECOTOWERS, PARIS

Urban and architectural study on highrises in Paris
Year:2007
Client: Ville de Paris
Site: Porte de la Chapelle, Paris
Floor Area: 170 000m2
Architectural design: SERERO
Architects: Lionel Leotardi, Nordine Chevalier, David Serero, Fabrice Zaini.
Engineers: ARUP Engineers
Mechanical Engineer : TRIBU Ingénierie

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Architecture competition for the Universidad Austral de Chile | Scientific Department Building

UNVERSIDAD AUSTRAL
scientific department building - architecture competition for the Universidad Austral de Chile

special mention 2009

architects : Sebastian Irarrazaval, Murua+Valenzuela, Cristian Irarrazaval, Nicolas Dorval-Bory
Area:9600 m²
Location:Valdivia - Chile

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